Here are even more photos of Tom Cruise papping himself with his family to promote MI4. The man is just … well, he doesn’t stop. I realize that he’s got a product to sell and has much at stake with this movie, and Kaiser described Tom’s attitude well in terms of “hustle,” but Tom really needs to take a break soon. I’m actually startng to worry about the little fella. It’s simply not healthy to run this hard for so long.

Also, Tom should really think about disappearing for awhile after he finishes up this MI4 publicity blitz because the backlash is commencing in earnest and from more than just a gossip standpoint. Even Reuters has published an article (a really “amazing“ one) entitled “The Curse of Being Tom Cruise” that includes much of what we’ve already discussed here including a bit about those paid fans in Mumbai. Overall, it’s a pretty brutal take on Tom’s public persona and concludes that Tom’s fame is quickly approaching that of a reality star instead of an A-list movie actor.

Now Hollywood Reporter has jumped in with a piece dedicated solely to the topic of Tom’s morphing face, which Kaiser, CB, and myself have already covered at greatlength. The HR article even discusses the Mail’s piece about Tom’s makeup fetish (which I referenced yesterday) and goes into detail about Tom’s secret professional relationship with a famous Brazilian plastic surgeon:

Tom Cruise, 49, is looking eerily younger than ever. Which leads us to surmise that A. he’s getting some help or B. he’s got a scary portrait in his attic. The actor — who turns 50 on July 3, 2012, — has looked particularly fresh-faced as he promotes his new movie Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

So what’s his secret? According to the Brazilian mag EPOCA, Cruise has had meetings with world famous Brazilian plastic surgeon Dr. Ivo Pitanguy. Cruise even invited the good doctor to the 2009 Rio premiere of Knight and Day. And on that same trip, Cruise, wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri, were photographed having a lunch at Pitanguy’s private island in Brazil’s Bay of Kings.

British tabs are already reporting that Cruise has become more concerned with his skin, even using his wife’s creams. Since Dr. Pitanguy’s skin care line, Beauty By Clinica Ivo Pitanguy, is also available at U.S department stores such as Berdorf Goodman, Cruise could indeed be slathering on his friend’s pricey goop. The New York Times has already lauded Pitanguy’s new “It” Cream, the Restoring Formula in his PreVious skin care line. The cost: $300 for 1.7 ounces.

Pitanguy is credited with triggering Brazil’s obsession with plastic surgery. He’s allegedly worked on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Persian Empress Farah Diba, French president Francois Mitterrand and Frank Sinatra. A jet-setting multi-lingual Renaissance man, Ivo is also friends with Carla Bruni, the First Lady of France, Michael Caine and the late Salvador Dalí and Audrey Hepburn, The Times also profiled the good doctor, whose scapel has been said to be “guided by heaven.”

Another aging celebrity we’re keeping a close eye on is Rolling Stone Mick Jagger. Our sources say he’s now using his girlfriend L’Wren Scott’s magical skin potions from Dr. David Colbert, including Colbert’s Intensify Facial Discs, Stimulating Serum, Nutrify and Protect Day Dream and Heal and Soothe Night Cream, available at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and on his website.

If Dr. Colbert’s products can make a difference in Mick’s 68-year-old weathered face, we’re buying this stuff in bulk. And how many Frequent Flyer miles does it take to get to Brazil?

A plastic surgeon who’s allegedly “guided by Heaven” doesn’t sound like he falls in line with the tenets of Scientology, right? Then again, the usual CO$ rules don’t necessarily apply to Tom. But yes, I totally buy that Katie and Suri were wined and dined while Tom was nipped and tucked.

Tom also appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to talk more about the MI4 stunts. Fallon’s praise was so effusive that I thought the poor guy was going to wet his pants in excitement, and when he called Tom a “manly man,” you could visibly see Tom’s feathers fluff right up. It was a lot like the final act of Black Swan. Anyway, Fallon totally beat Tom in a wreath-throwing contest too, and I bet it secretly killed Tom not to be the very best at something:

Meanwhile, here’s a photo of Katie stepping out alone on Tuesday evening (even robots need some breathing room) to check out the Broadway production of The Cherry Orchard, which sort of irks me because I adore Anton Chekov and even chose my daughter’s middle name based upon a character in that very play. Katie couldn’t possibly understand.

Ok.
Dr. Pitanguy is probably 80 something years old, I very much doubt he still operates on anyone. He has been considered the best, and his team is top of the line. He did make exceptions and operated on royalty and the such in the 90s, the rest of the people just get his team. I will never get work done anywhere but his clinic.

That bottom pic barely resembles him…With that being said I can’t stand that man and the only movie that I have ever watched that he was in was Top Gun and that was to see Val Kilmer with no shirt–now Val needs to keep on all his clothes and wear a ski mask, of course I wish Cruise would do the same. Blech.

It’s been freakishly warm here the past few days – almost 60. But the kid should still be properly dressed and not wearing sandals. When I was 8 or 9 I had a pair of slip-on shoes that had a heel – I LOVED them. But it was also the 70s and I thought I was Olivia Newton-John in Grease.

Private car? Why, they must be ree-uch! (read in Jed Clampet’s voice) Lol, why would you point out that their car was private? Like they have to share it with the neighbors or something? How utterly weird.

Dr. Ivo Pitanguy is brilliant, but I don’t think he performs surgeries anymore.

I believe that if Cruise had work done in Brazil — by Brazilian plastic surgeons — they could have been trained by/studied with Pitanguy, but it’s unlikely that the man himself was the one performing the operation.

I rewatched TC’s indoctrination video last night. I found it interesting because he goes on and on about how Scientologists are the only ones who know and the only ones who can do, more than scientists, politicians, professors, lawyers, etc., and yet when David Letterman asked him Dubai dude had no clue about it’s culture, people, traditions other than it has a really high building. He lives in a pathetic, flimsy little bubble and it looks like it is about to pop.

My point is don’t go on and on about how Scientologists are the only people who know how to solve the world’s problems, as he does in the indoctrination video, and then when asked a pretty standard question about a region he supposedly loves say, “I really don’t know; I was just filming a movie there.” How can you solve the world’s problems if you don’t have a basic understanding of how it works.?

I would love to be a fly on the wall for just one day inside that family dynamic. I wish they would put some tights on Suri…but not those ugly, unflattering “Working Girl” era shiny things Katie’s wearing.

In the vast, vast majority of these cases (of celebs looking fresh and well rested) the reason you don’t “see” surgery is because it’s extremely well done. That’s the whole point of having good work done. And yes, Pitanguy’s clinic is the place to do it, if you can afford it.

He looks great!!!! He should hand out his doctor’s cards to many of his Hollywood friends who have messed up their faces and bodies. He is a perfect example of what good plastic surgery is suppose to look like.When you made millions of dollars there is no excuse for bad doctors

After reading this I flashbacked to an old story about Tom going to Brazil once or twice a year to ‘freshen up’ that i heard a few years ago so I buy that this story is true. Tom may have good genes but he’s getting work done very subtle unlike his ex but it’s happening.

Tom Cruise is deliciously crazy. But not in a Anne Heche kind of way. More so, in a “I gotta do whatever it takes to keep the Scienexortionists from blowing my cover! You want me tap dance on a chair with a ball on my nose while professing my love for Scientology? Sure!” way.

Tom has obviously had work done but it looks good i think. Not to much or to drastic. Katie has also had quite a few tweaks done in past yrs but in very small doses and very much in moderation so not obvious BUT look at how different her nose is from when she first married Tom. Whole different nose.

I swear he had something done to his UPPER LIP. He usually shows a lot of teeth and gums when he smiles, but now he looks like he can’t quite move his lip so much. I call Botox, along with some facial filler.

Whatever he’s doing he looks great… And I don’t know about his fame lowering to that of a reality star… Ya everyone loves to bash him and of course he’s crazy, but he’s still Tom Cruise. I think the craziness even adds to his mystique a bit.

Tom Cruise acts like he’s in the throes of a serious nervous breakdown and I think that makes people uncomfortable. He just seems off and there is no good tangible reason for it.
He makes me embarrased for him and its an unpleasant feeling.

If he has had stuff done it has been done in a very subtle way. He looks great, and always has. I do think he is a strange man, but his personal life is none of my business. I have always loved his movies.

He has had a lot of work. And they did a fabulous job. I wish I looked that young now. And I am several years younger. But I am about a foot taller than he is. And not stupid and crazy…so I guess I got the decent end of the deal

I just saw MI Ghost Protocol tonight, and he looks freaking amazing, but he looks like a man in his 40s, but doesn’t look 49. Lots of closeups. He has forehead lines, smile lines, some lines around his eyes and neck. His body was really beefed up in a good way. I never realized he had such a great ass. And his stunts off the building, wow, and running he did exhausted me. And i have always found him to be a solid actor. He’s a movie star for a reason, and this movie shows it. If he has had any work done it is very minimal.